SRW - Khan BMS Battlefield Management System
Working notes on SRW (Soldier Radio Waveform): cca protocols context, design trade-offs, and where it fits in the Arban–Tumen hierarchy.
SRW, expanded, is Soldier Radio Waveform — Networking waveform for handheld and small-form-factor tactical radios. SRW is a self-forming, self-healing waveform optimized for dismounted soldiers and small UAS. It carries position, voice, and data among Rifleman Radios and similar handhelds and is commonly used to backhaul small-UAS and CCA-class telemetry over short ranges into a higher-tier network.
In our reference deployment, SRW runs at the edge with no continuous-uplink assumption. Nodes carry the last lawful SRW state, gossip updates when bandwidth allows, and reconcile via a vector-clock scheme borrowed from distributed-database literature.
The Zuun (one hundred nodes) is the natural composition point for SRW. Ten Arbans aggregate their SRW state into one Zuun-level picture; one Zuun commander supervises ten subordinates, never a hundred individual feeds. The cognitive-load math is the entire point.
Most of what is written about SRW is wrong in the same way: it treats Soldier Radio Waveform as a protocol to be implemented. It is not. It is an architectural commitment, and the cost of getting it wrong shows up two programs later.
The pitch is not that Khan BMS reinvents SRW. It is that Khan BMS is the first commercial fabric willing to treat SRW as structural rather than optional.